ClickMeeting vs Luma

ClickMeeting is a webinar and online meeting platform based in Gdańsk, Poland. It started around 2011 inside the email marketing company GetResponse and became an independent company in 2016. It reports more than 15 million users a year and is ISO 27001:2022 certified. Its core job is to run live, on-demand and automated webinars in the browser, with no download needed for attendees, plus the registration, payments and follow-up around them.

Features include registration pages, polls and surveys, screen sharing, breakout rooms, recording, AI transcription, certificates, paid webinars with Stripe or PayPal checkout and discount codes, and streaming to YouTube and Facebook. Plans are priced by attendee count: Live covers real-time events in tiers from 50 to 1,000 attendees, Automated adds pre-recorded webinars that run on a schedule with automatic reminders and follow-ups, and Enterprise supports events up to 10,000 viewers. There is a 14-day free trial for 25 attendees.

ClickMeeting fits trainers, educators, SaaS marketers and small businesses that want a reliable, easy webinar tool with built-in monetization. It is less suited to large hybrid conferences or deep marketing automation. GoTo Webinar is the long-time enterprise standard, Livestorm offers a more modern event workflow with stronger CRM sync, and Demio or WebinarJam focus on marketing-driven evergreen funnels.

Buying tip: price tiers jump with attendee count (Live is $48 for 50 attendees but $335 for 1,000 monthly), so pick the tier that matches your typical live audience and save up to 20% with annual billing.

Luma (lu.ma) is an event management platform known for beautiful, minimal event pages. Tech communities, startups, venture firms and creators use it to host meetups, product launches, demo days, workshops and conferences, both in person and online. Its core job is to make creating an event, collecting registrations and keeping attendees informed effortless.

Organizers create an event page in minutes, then manage RSVPs with approval-based registration, waitlists, custom registration questions and capacity limits. Ticketing runs through Stripe with free, paid and pay-what-you-want options. Email and SMS blasts, automatic reminders and calendar invites keep attendees engaged, and a check-in app scans QR codes at the door. Community calendars let people subscribe to everything an organization hosts, which builds a recurring audience over time. Luma is free for free events and charges a platform fee on paid tickets, which Luma Plus removes along with adding more admins and advanced features for an annual subscription.

Luma fits communities and startups that run frequent events and care about how they look and feel. It is not built for large multi-track conferences with complex agendas, exhibitor management or enterprise integrations; Eventbrite reaches a broader consumer audience, Meetup offers built-in group discovery, Partiful suits casual social events, and platforms such as Cvent or Bizzabo serve large corporate conferences.